7th August 1802
Napoleon lays into Jersey in the French press
Napoleon accused Jersey of granting asylum to criminals condemned to death, then sending them on raiding missions back into France. Once there, they were robbing and murdering anyone they came across and destroying their houses. According to the section of the French press under Napoleon’s control, this was being coordinated by the British government in London.
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Other events that occured in August
Divers move 70 primed bombs
- The Navy was called in to move 70 primed bombs that had been found in a sunken freighter just outside St Helier.
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Soldier kills colleague with a scrubbing brush
- When a fight broke out at a Jersey barracks, one of the two men involved ended up being killed, in part by a scrubbing brush.
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Explorer Major General Edward Thompson Dickson dies
- St Helier-born Edward Dickson saw much of the world at a time when travel was a far more arduous process than it is today.
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Curious bottles wash up on Jersey’s beaches
- Dozens of strange bottles washed up on beaches around the Channel Islands in 1893 as part of an experiment.
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